Four runners in this year’s race will try to go the distance as members of Team Ouimet, to support the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund that helps to award assistance to high school students who’ve been involved in the golf industry for at least two years. One runner on the team, Fletcher Sokul, has never competed in so much as a one-mile race, but feels compelled to give back to the industry for his experiences that began at Concord (N.H.) Country Club and led to his playing Division One golf.

Engineering firm McFarland Johnson proposed a plan to install slit drains on lower holes of the Manchester, N.H., club’s golf course to draw away excess water into culverts to avoid flooding. The proposed project also calls for expanding the course’s irrigation system and improving tees, greens, cart paths and bunkers on the eastern half of the course.